Handbook on Ethics in Finance: (International Handbooks in Business Ethics)

This handbook examines ethics in finance responses to the main challenges in finance, accounting and organizations in the 21st century. It addresses a broad array of topics, including the ethics of risk management in financial markets, professionalism and codes, responsibility of financiers, trust and fidelity, microfinance, electronic trading, crisis, scandals, and sustainability. The financialization of the economy, technological payments and digitalization of banking, combined with the inclusion of non-traditional "financial" entities in the market, will radically change the financial ecosystem as we know it. The resulting new scenario is still diffuse, bound to encounter important problems, and will require ethical reflection. This book provides a compendium of works on ethics in finance, and serves as a reference to both researchers and practitioners in the field. It will help those who are already anticipating the ethical reflection about new scenarios in finance, advanced financial products, or emergent financial market situations.

Table of Contents:
Financial institutions, codes of ethics and professionalism.- Auribus teneo lupum: Ethics in Finance as the result of a strong systemic commitment.- Ethical orientation in banks: original roots in bank management and current challenges.- Microfinance and female empowerment: a survey.- SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENTS: WHAT REALLY MATTERS?: Exploring motivations and ethical intensity in socially responsible investors.- ETHICS IN INNOVATIVE FINANCE.- Ending Finance’s Corrupt Culture Requires a Radical Restructuring of Finance and Financial Ethics.- Corporate Government as a structure for control and promotion of ethics in banks.- Do the managers of the Financial Entities have Ethical Responsibility about the social value generated or detracted by society?.- ACCOUNTING & AUDITING (16).

About the Author :
Leire San-Jose is associate professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in Bilbao (Spain), and she is also visiting research fellow at the University of Huddersfield (UK). She is leader of ECRI (Ethics in Finance & Social Value Research group). Leire was previously a visiting scholar at Loyola University Chicago under the supervision of Professor John Boatright and at Darden Business School under the supervision of Professor Edward Freeman. She has been at Fordham, Oxford, Heriot-Watt, and Bergamo as visiting professor, as well. Her most important publications are about ethics in payment to suppliers, social value and social efficiency, and stakeholder theory. Leire has published in impact journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Sustainability, European Management Journal, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, and CIRIEC. She organized EBENSpain conference in 2010 and ISBEE in 2020 held in Bilbao.José Luis Retolaza is an associate professor at Deusto Business School and director of AURKILAN Institute for Business Ethics Research in Bilbao (Spain); he was also a visiting scholar at Darden Business School, USA, during the second term of 2015. Jose is the scientific director of Global Economic Accounting (GEAccounting) company, whose aim is to monetize the social value of organizations (social accounting) and integrate in the strategy of companies. The current research focuses on stakeholder theory, social value, and social efficiency in the financial entities. He is a member of ECRI (Ethics in Finance & Social Value) research group and HUME. Jose is author of several publications in national and international scientific journals, and he has participated in numerous national and international conferences. He acts as reviewer member of ranked journals (Business & Society, CIRIEC, INNOVAR, Society for Business Ethics, and Contemporary Economics). Luc Van Liedekerke is professor of business ethics at the University Antwerp and the KULeuven. He currently holds the BNP Paribas Fortis Chair in Ethics and Finance at the University of Antwerp. He was director of the Center for Economics and Ethics at the KULeuven and for many years president of the European Business Ethics Network, the largest academic network in business ethics. He publishes extensively on business ethics, CSR, and financial ethics. Professor Liedekerke is board member of several academic and non-academic organizations in Belgium and abroad that are active in the field of SRI and sustainable business.